Roundabout 10/7/18

Sunday

Oct 7, 2018 at 1:01 AM

Announcements:

Red Tail Traveling Exhibit at UCA: October 3-7; UCA Campus; The exhibit will be located on the parking lot across from Crafton Alumni Pavilion on Bruce Street. It will be open to the general public from 2-6 p.m. October 3-5 and from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. October 6-7.School districts, youth programs and other student groups can tour the facility from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. October 3-5. Groups can schedule time slots to tour the facility by emailing diversity@uca.edu.

League of Women Voters: 6 p.m. on the first Thursday of every month; Faulkner County Cooperative Extension Service on the corner of Faulkner and Caldwell Streets. This month has a guest speaker on Arkansas’ 2018 Ballot Issues.

Are you a 4-H alumni? Faulkner County 4-H would love for you to be involved. “Be a judge, volunteer, make a difference,” 4-H officials said. For more information, call 501-329-8344.

Arkansas Coding Academy Adult Classes: At the Arkansas Coding Academy, students can be retrained for a new career within several months. They offer 3-month full-time and 6-month part-time tracks taught by local senior-level developers. The programming language for each course is based on input and feedback from local companies, and the curriculum is structured around project-based assignments with a final project based heavily in the core language for that course. To see the class schedules, inquire about tuition and for more information, Visit arkansascodingacademy.com or call 501-450-5276.

Calendar:

Blasingame Cemetery Association Meeting: Sunday, October 7; Oak Church Road north of El Paso; Meeting held in the pavillion. Potluck served at noon. Please bring your own lawn chairs. For more information contact Tom Riley at 796-2298.

Faulkner County Solid Waste Management District Board Meeting: 10 a.m. Tuesday, October 9; Vilonia City Hall; Meeting is open to the public.

UCA Horn Ensemble: 6 p.m. Tuesday, October 9; Snow Fine Aers Center Recital Hall; The performance is free to the public. The event will be helmed by Dr. Brent Shires, associate professor of horn in his 20th year at UCA.

Conway Writers Group: 2-4 p.m. every Friday; Ola and John Hawks Senior Center, 705 E. Siebenmorgan Road, Conway; The group views all writings as creative. Its goals are to encourage, assist and celebrate writing in all its forms. Newcomers of all ages are welcome and encouraged to bring writing samples. Meetings are free and open to the public.

Griffin Leggett Conway-Funeral Home Inaugural Show and Shine: 8 a.m. - 12 p.m. Saturday, October 13; 1751 Dave Ward Dr. "Join us for an opportunity to bring your ride — new, old, hot rod and street rod — and show it off. Free hot dogs, chips and drinks will be provided." Call 501-327-5000 for more information.

Spirits of the Cadron: 6-8:45 p.m. Saturday, October 13; Historic Cadron Settlement Park, 6200 Hwy. 319; The haunted tours will start at the Cadron Blockhouse and follow a lantern-lighted path where guides in period costumes will share scary stories about the settlers who once lived in this early settlement. Admission is $2 a person or $5 a carload.

Faulkner County Singing Club: 1:30 p.m. Sunday, October 14; Centerville United Methodist Church; The public is invited.

"Gone but not Forgotten" presented by The Conway High School Drama Department and the Oak Grove Cemetery Board: 3-5 p.m. Sunday, October 21; Oak Grove Cemetery, 305 Bruce Street; The drama students will present short vignettes of several Conway notables who are buried in the cemetery. The event is free, but donations are encouraged. There will also be ashort dedication ceremony for the new columbarium.

Festival of Chairs: 6-8 p.m. Thursday, October 25; Legacy Acres; The Festival of Chairs' signature feature are the repurposed chairs by local artists. The chairs are symbolic of the children and families that the Children’s Advocacy Alliance serves on a daily basis. The chairs start the journey broken, tattered, abused, then they arrive at the Festival of Chairs as beautiful works of art; this is the visual representation of the path walked by the children we serve. These chairs, along with other works of art and hundreds of other unique items, are featured in live, silent and super silent auctions.

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